Front End Developer

London

We’re looking for great people who want to develop their careers with us and help us to become the most user centred IT and digital team in the country

Our borough

Hackney is London's most diverse and dynamic borough. Reaching from the Square Mile to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this is an area of rapid economic growth, particularly in technology, media, fashion and other creative industries. Hackney has more green spaces than any other inner London borough; some of the capital's finest schools; first class transport connections; excellent public services; and thriving arts, cultural and retail sectors. We seek people with ambition, creativity and commitment to ensure our economic growth provides benefits for everyone and creates opportunities to transform the lives of residents.

The Team

Hackney ICT is a great place to work! Our team support vital public services across the borough and are working every day to make things better for our residents and businesses.

Hackney Council is also a great place to develop your career. We offer a wide range of opportunities to learn new skills through training, mentoring and by working alongside some of the best digital agencies in the country. We are developing a new Digital Leadership Academy and will be launching an exciting apprenticeship programme in spring 2018, with 18 apprentice roles across our service.

As well as this, Hackney also offers great benefits for our people, including a range of flexible working options, discounts and other schemes to help you save money and the opportunity to plan for your future by joining the local government pension scheme (more details are available online here: https://hackney.gov.uk/staffbenefits).

We are determined to help the ICT and digital profession become more diverse, and we encourage women and other people who are underrepresented in technology professions to apply to join our team. You can find out more about how Hackney promotes equalities and diversity here: https://www.hackney.gov.uk/equalitydiversity/ and read about our commitment to being a

You can find out more about our team, how we work and the work we do on our HackIT website: http://hackit.org.uk/

The Role

At Hackney, we are passionate about using technology to help residents by providing services so good, people prefer to use them.

As well as working with some of the UK’s foremost digital agencies, Hackney is committed to investing in developing in-house digital design teams so that we grow our capacity to design, build and deliver excellent digital services and to complement expertise that we buy in.

The new Digital Design team will be provide the key skills and expertise required to deliver agile, user centred change across the whole range of the Council’s services.

Essential skills:

5+ years’ experience as a frontend developer

Fundamentals including semantic HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript

Passion for CSS and knowledge of Flexbox and Grid

Comfortable with Sass and PostCSS

JS-based build tools - Grunt, Gulp, Webpack

Experience with NPM, CLI and GitHub

Care about accessibility and performance

An eye for UI and UX

Desire to work on open source projects

Be able to work quickly in an agile environment

Good collaboration skills with designers and other developers

Nice to have:

Built design systems before and used Fractal

Angular experience and keen on React/Vue

Worked on projects built on.Net and Ruby

Central or local government experience or in general interest for GDS work

Interest/experience with TDD and testing in general

Able to engage the whole multidisciplinary team with the development process

How to apply

To apply all you need to do is:

1. Read the Job Description for this role, paying particular attention to the Person Specification section

2. Provide your details in our application form and upload your CV

3. Attach a supporting statement (maximum two pages) that shows how your skills, knowledge and experience will enable you to meet the criteria for he post, as described in the Person Specification

Closing Date: Sunday 3 February 2018 (22:59 hrs)

We actively promote equal opportunities and welcome applicants with a broad diversity of talent, including applicants who are interested in flexible working arrangements.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.

Hackney is London's most diverse and dynamic borough. Stretching from the edge of the City, to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it is an area of rapid economic growth, particularly in the tech, media, fashion and other creative industries. Hackney has more green space than any other inner London borough, some of the capital's best schools, and first class transport connections, which combined with excellent local public services and a thriving arts, cultural and retail sector, are fast making it one of London's most popular areas to live, work and visit. Our challenge is to make sure that our borough's economic growth provides benefits for everyone who lives here, and to create opportunities that will transform the lives of local people.

We know that staff are key to our success and we are seeking people with ambition, creativity and commitment to our values to help us achieve the best for the people of Hackney.

At Hackney, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is stimulating, fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high profile organisation.

We are passionate about equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply

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